He's no stranger to shootings having been with Tupac Shakur the night he was shot dead.

And he's not the only one.. there have been plenty of other examples of music industry stars going down in a hail of bullets. Here we go.

Suge Knight

John Atterberry

In December 2011 this music executive was killed after he was randomly shot by a crazed gunman while running a quick errand to the bank.

The 40-year-old had risen to vice-president at Death Row Records which produced artists such as Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur.

He later founded Infusion Music Group, a music publishing company with credits on albums by Michael Jackson, Christina Aguilera, Brandy, the Spice Girls and Jessica Simpson.

He died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, three days after he was shot in the jaw and torso by gunman Tyler Brehm on Sunset Boulevard.

Brehm's ex-girlfriend said the couple had recently broken up but police said they had no motive for the attack.

Brehm was filmed as he walked down the middle of Sunset Boulevard, firing on motorists with no clear target and injuring three of them before two police officers who happened to be in the area - an off-duty motorcycle officer working movie set security and a detective - shot and killed him.

Tupac

TuPac tragically died in 1996 (Photo: Getty)

Tupac Shakur has sold over 75 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. He was shot and killed aged 33 in 1996.

Shakur was a vocal participant in the so-called East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry, becoming involved in conflicts with other rappers, producers and record-label staff members, most notably The Notorious B.I.G. and the label Bad Boy Records.

On September 7, 1996, Shakur was shot multiple times in a drive-by shooting at the intersection of Flamingo Road and Koval Lane in Las Vegas, Nevada.

He had been at the Mike Tyson vs Bruce Sheldon boxing match and been involved in a altercation with gang member Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson.

A short while later, while en route to night club a car pulled up alongside Shakur's while he was standing with his head out of the sunroof and unknown occupants shot him, hitting him in the chest, pelvis, right hand, thigh and lung.

His killer has never been definitively identified.

Biggie Smalls

Biggie Smalls, aka Chris Wallace died in 1997 (Photo: Getty)

Also known as "The Notorious B.I.G.," Biggy was a revered hip-hop artist and face of East Coast gangsta rap. He was shot and killed on March 9, 1997.

Biggy's death came just as the rapper was about to put out his second album, Life After Death. In the wake of Biggy's killing, the record was a giant hit, selling nearly 700,000 copies in its first week.

He had a long running battle with Tupac Shakur and many fans saw his death as retaliation for the earlier killing.

In May 2012, former L.A. police detective Greg Kading, who had worked on Biggie's case, told VH1 that he had incriminating evidence against a gang member belonging to the Mob Piru Bloods.

Kading, who had quit the LAPD after he was pulled from the case, asserts that the murder will never be solved.

50 Cent

50 Cent was involved in a shooting too (Photo: REUTERS)

The rapper was 26 and was just starting out on his career when on May 24, 2000, he was attacked by a gunman, alleged to be Darryl "Hommo" Baum, outside his grandmother's former home in South Jamaica, Queens.

As he was loading a car an assailant then walked up to Jackson's left side with a 9mm handgun and fired nine shots at close range.

He was shot nine times: in the hand - a round hit his right thumb and passed through his little finger – in his arm, hip, both legs, chest, and his face.

The face wound resulted in a swollen tongue, the loss of a wisdom tooth, and a small slur in his voice - he maintains a bullet fragment in his tongue because it was thought that taking it out would further damage his nerves and taste buds.

Baum, the alleged shooter as well as being Mike Tyson's bodyguard, was killed three weeks later.

John Lennon

Tragic (Photo: Getty)

He was shot by Mark Chapman at the entrance to the building where he lived, The Dakota, in New York City on 8 December 1980, having just returned from Record Plant Studio with his wife, Yoko Ono.

Chapman had been a big Beatles fan, idolizing Lennon, and played guitar himself, but turned on him after becoming born-again; he was angered at Lennon's comment that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus.

As Lennon walked from his limo to the door of his building Chapman took aim directly at the centre of Lennon's back and fired five hollow-point bullets at him from a Charter Arms .38 Special revolver in rapid succession from a range of about nine or ten feet away.

The first bullet missed, passing over Lennon's head and hitting a window, two of the next bullets struck him in the left side of his back, and two more penetrated his left shoulder, three of the bullets passed straight through him and one lodged inside.

Lennon, bleeding profusely from external wounds and also from his mouth, staggered up five steps to the security/reception area, saying, "I'm shot, I'm shot" before falling to the floor, scattering cassettes that he had been carrying.

Dr Stephen Lynn, who tried to save his life at hospital, stated: "If he had been shot this way in the middle of the operating room with a whole team of surgeons ready to work on him... he still wouldn't have survived his injuries".

Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye (Photo: BBC)

The legendary RnB singer was shot dead by his father, Marvin Gay, Sr. on April 1, 1984 at their house at 2101 South Gramercy Place in Western Heights in the West Adams district of Los Angeles.

Gaye was shot twice following an altercation with his father after he intervened in an argument between his parents.

There had long been tensions between father and son over the treatment of Marvin jnr's mother in the mansion they shared

The day before he was killed he gave his father a gun to help protect from would-be intruders.

On the day of the killing the pair rowed and Marvin hit his father – it had long been understood the family that Marvin snr was ever struck by one of his children he would kill them.

Apparently Marvin's father returned to confront his son a short time after being brutally kicked and shot him dead through the heart.

His brother Frankie held the dying Marvin who he said barely speaking above a whisper, told him, "I got what I wanted... I couldn't do it myself, so I had him do it... it's good, I ran my race, there's no more left in me.”

A remorseful Marvin snr was given a suspended sentence after he pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter following analysis of Marvin's body which found cocaine and PCP drugs present.

Tim Westwood

Tim Westwood (Photo: PA)

Westwood was injured in a drive-by shooting in Kennington, South London, on 18 July 1999, after he had been playing at the Lambeth Country Show in Brockwell Park.

According to police reports, gunmen on a motorbike pulled up alongside his Range Rover and shot him and his assistant.

His assailants were never caught but he recovered and went on to work for the BBC until last year Westwood. The pioneering hip-hop DJ whose adopted “street” patois divided listeners, was axed as Radio 1’s voice of rap after nearly 20 years on the station.

The middle-class son of the former Bishop of Peterborough, Westwood, 55, was frequently mocked for speaking in the street slang of the largely black rap artists he championed.